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Determination of the uniformed chiefs, and, for that matter, the fbi director and cia director. >> general milley also reportedly praised the fact there was a peaceful transition of power, saying, the line bent but didn't break. i mean do you agree? you talk about how the systems held, but are there lessons we should learn from this so we don't come close to breaking that line again? >> i think he is quite correct. you know, we ought to be proud we got through this perilous procedure. by the way, the protection of the american people is to ensure we elect presidents to office who share a convi...

Statutes only allow the chairman to advise the president.he he has no command authority whatsoever. >> tucker: it because he was not elected by anyone, that's how the system works. power vested with people and the public chooses to represent them. so if he's trying to control of the next cia director is preventing you from getting a job as it happened, but so far outside of what we would call, i guess, democratic norms. i wonder why no one has said anything about it? >> you are totally right and i'm glad you're covering it because so few people have. the statutes are clear, he's responsible fo...

For leaders of all stripes whether they're in the military or particularly political leaders to make sure that they keep faith with the troops, especially those who are deployed and we increasingly have people who have been deployed for dozens of tours. they're far away from home. they're defending 250 million americans with actually a very small percentage of the american public in uniform. they know they have an extremely difficult job, that there are threats around the world and we may not be capable of defending against them. it's important that they know that there are people back in the ...

S.e.a.l.s, the command of the navy s.e.a.l.s, and he understand what admiral collin green, the commander of the ceils is going through in this situation in terms of an administrative elimination of eddy gallagher's trident pin. this is so extremely confusing, it's just another night in trump world. and it's unfortunately bad for the civil-military relations and an understanding of what command authority has to do within the military. >> without trying to figure out all those pieces who knew what, why and what was going on exactly just answer this question. what kind of an impact can an abrupt ...

Bush and obama. what's your take on what he said there? >> the same message he's been putting out for the campaign and the election, claiming credit forgetting rid of isis. the president adopted the formula already in place under obama. it's something the obama administration -- you can criticize them as being slow to put this together, but they put together a coalition of more than 70 countries with kurdish fighters on the ground, no american foot soldiers, no infantry on the ground. we carefully and deliberately pushed back isis from his massive territory. it was as big as great britain, the...